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Submission + - Starlink moves from private to public beta

Rei writes: According to an email sent out to the Starlink mailing list, Starlink is now moving from private, free, invite-only beta to a much larger, subscription-based public beta. Bandwidth estimates have risen to 50-150Mbps, while latency remains similar, at 20-40ms. This is expected to decrease to 16-19ms by summer of 2021. As it is a beta, the email cautions that "There will also be brief periods of no connectivity at all" as they enhance the system. Pricing involves an antenna purchase ($500) and a $99/mo subscription rate. There is no data cap. The beta currently only appears to be for the northern US and Canada, but SpaceX expects to quickly move further south; "near global coverage" is targeted at summer of 2021.

Submission + - Why Your Sysadmin Hates You (itworld.com)

jfruh writes: We've learned many lessons in the fallout from Edward Snowden's whistleblowing and flight to Hong Kong, but here's an important one: Never piss off your sysadmin. Even if your organization isn't running a secret, civil-rights violating surveillance program, you're probably managing to annoy your admins in a number of more pedestrian ways that might still have blowback for you. Learn to stay on their good side by going along with their reasonable requests and being specific with your complaints.

Comment I'm a USENIX Blogger at LISA12 (Score 4, Informative) 40

I would suggest to anyone who thinks that USENIX conferences are solely for graybeards who walk around wearing suspenders, flipping nickels at people, then you should take a few minutes to read through the training program from LISA12. Not only is there the old standard Linux stuff, there are also great classes on building AWS infrastructures, cloudstack, PowerShell, and tons more. It's really pretty great.

Comment Irony (Score 1) 277

Does anyone else find it ironic that they're using information obtained from a cracked server to determine that the weakest security is the password? Anyway, I think the passwords are only weak because the users get to choose them, and *users* are the weakest link in the security chain.

Comment Re:But but but (Score 1) 536

If the allegations against the FBI are true, and they had contractors successfully hide a weakness in a hugely successful open source project like OpenBSD, can't you at least conceive that it would be possible for them to have insiders at Microsoft that have done something similar? Microsoft wouldn't have to be aware, as Theo apparently wasn't.

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